Archaeological Remote Sensing in North America ：Innovative Techniques for Anthropological Applications

Publication subTitle ：Innovative Techniques for Anthropological Applications

Author： Duncan P. McKinnon  

Publisher： University of Alabama Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9780817391416

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780817319595

Subject： C0 Social Science Theory and Methodology

Keyword： 社会科学理论与方法论

Language： ENG

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The latest on the rapidly growing use of innovative archaeological remote sensing for anthropological applications in North America.

Updating the highly praised 2006 publication Remote Sensing in Archaeology, edited by Jay K. Johnson, Archaeological Remote Sensing in North America: Innovative Techniques for Anthropological Applications is a must-have volume for today’s archaeologist. Targeted to practitioners of archaeological remote sensing as well as students, this suite of current and exemplary applications adheres to high standards for methodology, processing, presentation, and interpretation.

The use of remote sensing technologies to address academic and applied archaeological and anthropological research problems is growing at a tremendous rate in North America. Fueling this growth are new research paradigms using innovative instrumentation technologies and broader-area data collection methods. Increasingly, investigators pursuing these new approaches are integrating remote sensing data collection with theory-based interpretations to address anthropological questions within larger research programs.

In this indispensable volume, case studies from around the country demonstrate the technically diverse and major remote sensing methods and their integration with relevant technologies, such as geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS), and include various uses of the “big four”: magnetometry, resistivity, ground-penetrating radar (GPR), and electromagnetic induction.

The study explores four major anthropological themes: site structure and community organization; technological transformation and economic change; archaeological landscapes; and earthen mound construction and composition. Concluding commentary from renowned expert Kenneth L. Kvamme overviews the practices, advances, and trends of geophysics and remote sensing in the past decade.

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Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword - Jay K. Johnson

Preface - Duncan P. McKinnon and Bryan S. Haley

Acknowledgments

New Developments in Archaeological Remote Sensing: An Introduction - Duncan P. McKinnon and Bryan S. Haley

Part 1. Site Structure and Community Organization

1. Multisensor Remote Sensing at Spiro: Discovering Intrasite Organization - Scott W. Hammerstedt, Jami J. Lockhart, Patrick C. Livingood, Tim Mulvihill, Amanda L. Regnier, George Sabo III, and John R. Samuelsen

2. Investigating Mississippian Community Organization with Geophysics: Two Examples from the Tennessee River Valley - Shawn M. Patch, Sarah Lowry, and Erin Pritchard

3. Evaluating the Use of Community Space at Two Southeastern Mound Centers Using Magnetic Gradient and Surface Collection Data - Duncan P. McKinnon and Bryan S. Haley

4. At the Tip of an Amplitude Wave: The Role of Terrestrial Remote Sensing in Twenty-First Century Grand Canyon Archaeology Debates - Philip B. Mink II

Part 2. Technological Transformation and Economic Change

5. A Remote Sensing Approach to Studying Land Use Change in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico - Jennie O. Sturm

6. Examining Agricultural Surplus at Huff Village, North Dakota: Combining Archaeological and Remote Sensing Data - Adam S. Wiewel

7. Transformation in Technologies: A Look at Basketmaker III Archaeology in Southwestern Colorado - Shanna Diederichs, Margaret Watters, Duncan P. McKinnon, and Bryan S. Haley

Part 3. Archaeological Landscapes

8. Conceptualizing the Anthropogenic Islands of Southern Florida with LiDAR - Victor D. Thompson

9. Magnetic Susceptibility for Historical Archaeological Sites and Landscapes - Daniel P. Lynch and Rory Becker

10. Anthropologically Focused Geophysical Surveys and Public Archaeology: Engaging Present-Day Agents in Placemaking - Edward R. Henry, Philip B. Mink II, and W. Stephen McBride

Part 4. Earthen Mound Construction and Composition

11. The Role of Geophysics in Evaluating Structural Variation in Middle Woodland Mounds in the Lower Illinois River Valley - Jason L. King, Duncan P. McKinnon, Jason T. Herrmann, Jane E. Buikstra, and Taylor H. Thornton

12. The Anthropological Potential of Ground-Penetrating Radar for Southeastern Earthen Mound Investigations: A Case Study from Letchworth Mounds, Tallahassee, Florida - Daniel P. Bigman and Daniel M. Seinfeld

13. Exploring the Deepest Reaches of Arkansas’s Tallest Mounds with Electrical Resistivity Tomography - James Zimmer-Dauphinee

Part 5. Commentary

14. A Decade of Geophysics and Remote Sensing in North American Archaeology: Practices, Advances, and Trends - Kenneth L. Kvamme

References

Contributors

Index

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